SUCCESS = PLANNING

Many a times I come across individuals, groups, communities and even nations who state that "we would be successful, we are ready for it, we are going for it". However, you also see them never succeeding - but even moving towards a success. Some basic ingredients success that they seems to be missing. Last week, I realized one of the basic ingredient which I feel most of us often miss.

It was 8.16 a.m. and I had to reach to my office before 9.00 a.m. for a meeting. From my house in Ordrup to office at Universitetsparken in Copenhagen it is 38 minutes either by bus or train. As I reached, Ordrup station I saw more people than would be usually there. Though, I could not guess, what's the problem either from Denish announcements and display from the TV screens, I guess that one or some of the trains are late or canceled. As, I began to worry about my meeting at 9.00 and was about a to make a call to my colleagues informing that I could be late - I saw the bus approaching to railway station with board as "extra". Bus took us from Ordrup to Hellerup station, from where I got my train for Norreport station and from their bus for Universitetsparken. In whole of this saga, I was just late by 2 minutes, a time that I took to walk from Ordrup station platform to "extra" bus. This is called "Planning"!

How many of us do have planning to this level of details and fall-back plan. Forget to this level, but majority of us have no plans at all. In fact, we often say enjoy and deal with life as it comes and happens. I think that is major difference between ordinary individual and successful human being. Successful person, group, community, society and nation plan for their success, and ensure that they implement it with strictness. But only determined person can do planning, only those who truly wish to succeed can do planning - rest others can never! Thus,

SUCCESS = PLANNING.